We’ve been concerned from the beginning that this was a terrible place to put a mine.

Now DEQ’s own studies, the ones that were suppressed, confirm it and confirm that the regulatory process itself has not been holding Kennecott accountable to the letter of the law.

Just imagine being a miner when the roof fails and tons of rock and millions of gallons of water from the Salmon Trout crash in. It’s the worst-case scenario with many deaths likely, and it would leave the Salmon Trout and the watershed bleeding sulfuric acid into Lake Superior for thousands of years.

History has shown with every other metallic sulfide mine that regulators are unable to prevent the inevitable pollution of the water.

This suppressed study is just one hard piece of evidence that here the process has failed even before the mine is built. Clearly the DEQ needs to have citizen oversight.

And we need the public to financially support our efforts at Save the Wild UP so that we can continue to keep the public fully informed.